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Noninvasive Muscle Activity Imaging Using Magnetography Noninvasive muscle activity imaging using magnetography Rodolfo R. Llinása,1,2, Mikhail Ustininb,2, Stanislav Rykunovb,2, Kerry D. Waltona,2, Guilherme M. Rabelloa,2, John Garciaa,2, Anna Boykob,2, and Vyacheslav Sychevb,2 aDepartment of Neuroscience and Physiology, Center for Neuromagnetism, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, 10016; and bKeldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 125047 Russia Contributed by Rodolfo R. Llinás, November 19, 2019 (sent for review August 12, 2019; reviewed by Edgar Garcia-Rill and David Poeppel) A spectroscopic paradigm has been developed that allows the mag- Results netic field emissions generated by the electrical activity in the hu- The results obtained in the present set of functional tomo- man body to be imaged in real time. The growing significance of grams correspond to actual anatomical data, very much to imaging modalities in biology is evident by the almost exponential those obtained by head MRI, or by direct observation in other increase of their use in research, from the molecular to the ecolog- cases. Recordings were made from the head (Fig. 1), heart ical level. The method of analysis described here allows totally non- (Figs. 2 and 3), and several muscle groups (Figs. 4 and 5) at invasive imaging of muscular activity (heart, somatic musculature). rest and during voluntary contraction, or under conditions Such imaging can be obtained without additional methodological where muscles were intrinsically activated during muscle pain steps such as the use of contrast media. (Fig. 5). magnetoencephalography | magnetocardiography | magnetomyograph | Recordings with the Head in the Sensor Helmet. To verify that the precise frequency-pattern analysis magnetic recording profiles obtained from neck and body mus- culature observed from a single subject (19) were generalizable, xquisite research methodologies have been developed for the MEG recordings were obtained from 10 subjects. The subjects Estudy of the structural imaging of brain function, from single- sat quietly with their head inside the MEG sensor helmet during cell level with electron and multiphoton microscopy, to whole the recording (Methods). The resulting functional tomogram is NEUROSCIENCE organ imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1). shown as colored voxels in Fig. 1. In addition to the recording of Functionally, brain electrical activity has been addressed, over a brain activity (Fig. 1, light voxels), an image of the magnetic similar range, from single ionic channel and single-cell activity profile of the head and neck was obtained that reconstructed (patch, microelectrode recording, and dye imaging) to whole brain their anatomy in three dimensions (Fig. 1, dark voxels). An activity (electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography). outline of a head and upper neck is superimposed on the to- Structure and function are combined in fMRI. While fMRI offers mogram for orientation. The approximate locations of the nasion a good spatial resolution (∼1 mm), the temporal resolution is poor (seconds to minutes). By contrast, electroencephalography (EEG) Significance and magnetoencephalography (MEG) offer better temporal res- olution (ms), and can be combined with structure via coregistra- Historically, the activity of muscle groups has been evaluated tion. This particular combination requires the use of mathematical indirectly, through strength and range of movement mea- modeling for coregistration and thus improvement has been of surements. While direct evaluation of muscle activity has been recent interest and relevance (2, 3). achieved using surface or invasive electrodes, the latter Magnetic signals have been recorded from areas other than methodologies are limited to individual muscles. By contrast, magnetic recording of muscle activity, as illustrated here, offers the brain (4), to include peripheral nerve (5), spinal cord (6), the – – a noninvasive approach to evaluate the activity of large muscle somatic (7 11), and cardiac musculature (12 14), and see ref. 15. groups. This includes deep structures such as the heart and Indeed, recent advances have allowed magnetocardiography intraabdominal musculature such as the iliacus muscle. An (MCG) recordings in the unshielded hospital setting (16). unexpected finding was the ability to image activity associated We have developed a methodology for the analysis and lo- with muscle pain. Thus, this method offers a noninvasive bio- calization of brain activity based on MEG recordings addressed marker for muscular pain and, significantly, of neck and back as functional tomography (17–20). This methodology generates a pain, which now relies mainly on the patient’s report of signs highly spatiotemporal (1 mm/ms) three-dimensional (3D) map of and symptoms. the energy produced by all magnetic sources located at a given Author contributions: R.R.L. and K.D.W. designed research; R.R.L., K.D.W., G.M.R., and J.G. point in space. We call the resulting image of such activity a performed research; R.R.L., M.U., S.R., K.D.W., G.M.R., J.G., A.B., and V.S. analyzed data; “functional tomogram.” With this augmented analysis technol- and R.R.L., M.U., and K.D.W. wrote the paper. ogy, we noted that in addition to brain activity, other structures Reviewers: E.G.-R., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and D.P., New York near the head could also be imaged (19). This finding led us to University. design a study of the magnetic fields associated with the elec- The authors declare no competing interest. trical activity in cardiac and somatic musculature in healthy This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- adults. This recording paradigm allowed us to ascertain whether NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND). Data deposition: The raw data and computational scripts have been deposited in the Open Science our analysis methods would provide an image of this activity not Framework repository at https://osf.io/tyzdv/?view_only=0bdb0f9f9cfa4b9eb9c5ed50e6aece12. seen previously. In both nerve and muscle tissue the physiolog- 1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected]. ical basis for the generation of magnetic fields is the flow of 2R.R.L., M.U., S.R., K.D.W., G.M.R., J.G., A.B., and V.S. contributed equally to this work. transmembrane current. The functional tomograms are a rep- This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/ resentation of such magnetic fields (Figs. 1, 2C,3,Bottom,4, doi:10.1073/pnas.1913135117/-/DCSupplemental. Center, and 5, Upper Left). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1913135117 PNAS Latest Articles | 1of6 Downloaded by guest on September 25, 2021 Recordings with the Left Chest under the Sensor Helmet. Given the large electrical signal of the heart, we proceeded to attempt imaging of the cardiac muscle activity by having the subjects lay supine on the recording bed with their left chest under the sensor helmet. Before beginning the recording, the position of each subject was adjusted until the largest cardiac signal was obtained. As shown in Fig. 2, cardiac muscle activity could be imaged, even when the sensors are arrayed in a helmet shape, rather than in a planar configuration (21). Three cycles of cardiac activity are shown in panel A. The multichannel spectrum of this activity, calculated from a 2-min cardiogram, is shown in panel B. A 3D image of the heart, reconstructed from the magnetic data, is shown in the lower image in panel C (for reference, the upper image in this panel shows the orientation of the heart in the tomogram below). A more rapid display of the heart activity could also be obtained (Fig. 3). Short time image analysis provided a demonstration of the stages of heart activation, allowing single heartbeats to be decom- posed into time fragments. This analysis generated an image of the sequential activation of the cardiac muscle and illustrates the cur- rent dipoles during a heartbeat. The P wave (atrial depolarization), the QRS complex (ventricular depolarization), and T wave (ven- tricular repolarization) were distinguished as shown in Fig. 3. Recording with Several Muscle Groups under the Sensor Helmet. Hand. When a hand was imaged during isometric flexion (squeezing an object) or extension (opening against a load, Fig. 4), the re- spective activation of the lumbrical or interossei musculature could be imaged. Fig. 4, Left shows the hand in its position in the sensor Fig. 1. Average functional tomogram of resting activity reconstructed from (an outline of the sensor helmet is provided for reference). Fig. 4, the frequency spectra from 10 subjects (Methods). The tomogram is em- Center is the image of the active dorsal interossei muscles with the bedded in 3D space and can be viewed from any axis. The outline of a head has been superimposed on the tomogram as a guide to the orientation se- index finger touching the top of the sensor helmet. Because this lected for this figure. Note that the spatial distribution of activity includes analysis method allows the magnetic signal to be imaged in three signals from the brain (yellow-range signal) and muscles of the head and dimensions, the tomogram was rotated to show the magnetic signal neck region (red-range signal). (Inset) provides the position of the head and as viewed from the dorsal aspect of the hand. (For reference, Fig. 4, shows the nasion and left preauricular fiducial markers. The positions of Right illustrates the dorsal interossei muscles.) these markers are superimposed on the tomogram as an aid to orientation. (Subject’s head inside the MEG sensor helmet, resolution = 3 mm.) Recording from Spontaneous Back Muscle Pain. We were particu- larly interested in determining whether images of back muscle activity could be obtained. There is no direct methodology that and left preauricular fiducial markers have been superimposed assesses spontaneous back muscle activity. This is particularly on the tomogram for reference.
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